… gusto in 1783, when its trustees commissioned a portrait of General GeorgeWashington to be painted from life by the greatest American portraitist … American Revolution was so pleased with the prospect that ultimately Washington underwrote the cost of the commission himself. With this …
… Acrobat on Horse (1914) was cast in lost wax ( cire perdue ) by Claude Valsuani, active in Paris from 1908 to 1940 and again after the war. It displays the fine black patina for which Claude was justly famous‚—"Valsuani black," dense, rich, and deep, is …